Precisely what family emergency, we wonder, could have been so distressing that George Galloway couldn’t make it to the Commons on Wednesday night to vote against the government’s terror bill? Since his vote would have eliminated the despised Blair junta’s majority of one, we fear it must be something grave. What a relief, then – for the wellbeing of George’s nearest and dearest, if nothing else – to discover that it was just another instalment of An Audience With George Galloway, this time at the Everyman Palace Theatre in Cork. And yet charges of eye-poppingly unprincipled egomania, levelled all too frequently against the poor man, are surely unfair in this instance. One more heave, come the next election, and the voters of Cork – revolutionary fervour surging through their veins – may yet oust the lickspittle Labour puppets from No 10! At least we think that’s how it works.